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The director of President Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, John J. DiIulio Jr., told a convention of Christian evangelical leaders today that social service programs that regard religious conversion as their central...

President Bush's plan to funnel government money to religious charities is generating unlikely criticism from some conservative Christian leaders who had promoted the idea for years but are now voicing reservations about putting it into effect. ...

Picking up an armload of mail early this week, I noticed an unfamiliar magazine in my box. ''World'' was its title; full color, slick paper, 38 pages. On the cover was a glowering, threatening, almost satanic John McCain. The headline was ''The...

If the news media are accused in some conservative quarters of muting criticism of Senator John McCain, there is at least one publication that is all but shouting its hostility toward him: World magazine, a little-known newsweekly for evangelical...

February 16, 2000, Wednesday

David Grann's article (Sept. 12) had numerous mistakes about me and one overarching error. His profile had me suddenly, for ideological reasons, adopting a 3-week-old black child in 1996. My wife and I adopted a son, now 9, in 1990, after a...

October 31, 1999, Sunday

One Sunday afternoon in Austin, Tex. -- not far from the Governor's Mansion -- Marvin Olasky, the man widely regarded as the godfather of ''compassionate conservatism,'' is working on his most recent disciple. As we drive through the city after...

THE AMERICAN LEADERSHIP TRADITION Moral Vision From Washington to Clinton. By Marvin Olasky. Illustrated. 298 pp. New York: The Free Press. $25. PICK out any 20th-century President and imagine if you actually had to live with him for a month....

February 28, 1999, Sunday

To the Editor: Marvin Olasky (Op-Ed, Nov. 14) suggests that charity funds disbursed through churches and civic organizations can possibly ''one day replace government services with something far more effective.''

November 18, 1998, Wednesday

To the Editor: In "One More Mr. Nice Guy" (Op-Ed, June 11), on the need for the Presidential contender Bob Dole to define "compassion" in a helpful way, Marvin Olasky asserts that "a compassionate person works directly with the needy. Passing...

June 14, 1996, Friday

To the Editor: Marvin Olasky (Op-Ed, June 11) characterizes debates about social policy, such as welfare, as having to do with compassion. In the United States, one in four children below age 12 are either hungry or at risk of being hungry....